₦airaland Forum

Cybermugu1: Am using God Almighty who created heaven and earth to beg everyone wey im name get 'ebola' inside e.g. Adebola, Okebola, Orebola, Oyebola, Ojebola, Otebola, Debola, Ifebola. etc not to attempt to shake or hug me till further notice. Na Jesus I take beg o

*na joke ooo*

ChristLight: It may not happen to you or i! But it might happen to our friends, relation or loved ones..... Think about your career that will be on hold, your children runnin here and there just to be safe, think about your wife/husband, think about your colleagues, think about your parents...
You Hausa man/woman, think of what will become of your Igbo and Yoruba friends, neigbhours, customers, and maybe Inlaws!!!
Then ask yourselves again; IS THIS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?
Even if we must split; it should be done peacefully
Pls if any of you have any picture of war victims pls add up....
GOD BLESS NIGERIA

SLIDEwaxie: I thought we all don't want this 'one Nigeria'. Shouldn't be a welcome development? Why scampering for a stay?
Go home na
At least u said the northerners are not needed.
I'm disappointed o

queensenglish91: No, it hasn't. Play your part. It will survive and thrive. Start by speaking up against tribalistic comments on Nairaland.

We’re yet to receive it, says Kano Assembly

Non-indigene groups condemn submission

A public bill has been sent to Kano State House of Assembly requesting it to pass it as law, asking that all Southerners residing or running businesses in the state be registered. A copy of the proposed bill, signed by Audu Bulama Bukari and Sunusi Umar Sadiq, the President and General Secretary of a group called Concerned Arewa Citizens was made available to Weekly Trust in Kano, and it stated that it is meant to protect the state against robbery, kidnapping and other criminal acts.

The group proposed the bill to be “enforced on the 1st day of August, 2014” and to be cited as “Kano State Registration of Southerners and Allied Matters Law, 2014.” Portions of the proposed bill read: “This bill is proposed for your consideration to protect our state against drugs and human trafficking, kidnappings, baby factories, armed robbery, importation of firearms, pipeline vandalism and other terrorist activities which have become prevalent in the South.”

The proposed bill gives the meaning of ‘Southerner’ as indigene of any of the seventeen (17) states in the South that may be Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Rivers. Some of the bill’s recommendations include the part that says: “No Southerner wishing to enter the boundaries of the State shall be permitted to do so unless he is duly registered with the appropriate authority.” Another reads: “Any Southerner registered in accordance with the foregoing provisions shall be issued with an Identity Card…”

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Isyaku Ali Danja, was unavailable for comment. But spokesperson of the House, Kabiru Salisu, said they are yet to receive the bill. He told Weekly Trust yesterday that a group of lawyers have indicated their interest to sponsor a public bill on the registration of Southerners resident in Kano. “Yes, a group of lawyers have intimated us about their intention to sponsor the bill but they have not yet submitted it. The legislators will first study it before anything else,” he said.

Recently in the news, the group called the Igbo Leaders of Thought disclosed that it had articulated a “security awareness programme” which the South-East Governor’s Forum could work with in order to “secure Igboland from Boko Haram insurgents”. Portion of the group’s statement posed the following question: “Why should all the police commissioners posted to the South-East Fulani/Muslims? Are there no police commissioners from the Middle-Belt, South-South or South-West that could be posted [there]?”

It also demanded that the CPs Abubakar Adamu Mohamed of Enugu, Usuman Gwari of Anambra, Maigari Dikko of Ebonyi, Abdulmajid Ali of Imo and Adamu Ibrahim of Abia should be redeployed immediately. “As we feel uncomfortable with the officers in charge of the South-East, as Boko Haram boasts of plans to attack,” another part read.

Leaders of non-indigenes in Kano under the umbrella of Ethnic Traditional Leaders Forum yesterday kicked against the calls by the two groups, saying the status quo should be maintained. In a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting, they said they are in total support of the posting of non-natives as heads of security agencies in states.

The leaders, in the communiqué which was jointly signed by Eze Ndigbo of Kano, Chief Boniface Ebekwe, Oba Yoruba of Kano, Abdullahi Saliu Olowo and Fred Akhigbe among others, said unity and peaceful co-existence is good for all.

When Weekly Trust contacted for the position of the Kano State government on the issues, Commissioner of Information, Abubakar Nuhu Danburam, said he has travelled to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj. “I’m not in the position to comment,” he said over the phone.

However, in an interview earlier this week, Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso raised alarm that President Goodluck Jonathan is plotting to be Life President by using divide-and-rule tactics.

It can be recalled that last month there was a major flap about Northerners being asked to register and carry I.D cards by Imo State authorities, a development which was put to rest after Governor Rochas Okorocha denied that was the case.

A public bill is a legislative bill affecting only a single person, group, or area and it is submitted by individuals or groups from the general public.

collynzo2: and impoverish his brothers?

maclatunji: Very impressive, may Allah bless her efforts!

lygn19: now i knw u re stup1d, no need to convince u...Parasites.

lygn19: Parasites...

okohkriz: Some youth are really senseless. Protesting for who? Where is the governor children? What about his relatives? I believe your guest is as good as mine. Now that they are dead, will that stop the impeachment? If at all they are educated, permit me to call them educated illiterate.

Dreal1247: So for the the derivation of the niger Delta to be increased by five percent, the North should be given five percent for the problem that they created by themselves. This people wise m? Assuming the crude oil in the Niger delta were to be found in the North, Nigeria should have ceased to exist. We don wise follow una.

Usman Bugaje, has raised a controversial issue on the ownership of Nigeria’s crude oil domiciled majorly in the Niger Delta region.
According to him, it is wrong for any state to claim that it is oil producing because 72% of the total land mass in the country belonged to the North and that by the United Nation’s law; it is only the North that actually has the right to claim ownership.
Dr. Bugaje, in his presentation, insisted that “there are no oil producing states.” He argued that “the only oil producing state is the Nigerian state itself.”
He explained, “Whatever mileage you get in the sea, according to the United Nations Law of the sea, is a measure of the land mass that you have; that is what gives you the mileage into the sea…and the land mass of this country, that gives that long 200 nautical miles or more into the ocean, is because of that 72% of the land mass of this country, which is the North.”
To buttress his argument, Dr. Bugaje also said, “The investment came from the Nigerian state and the territory belongs to the Nigerian state.”
He further maintained, “What they claim is the off shore oil is actually the oil of the North” contending that “we should stop using these terms that have no sense at all. There are no oil producing states.”

HAH: The confab was conceived to reduce the perceived advantage the north has over the south, that was why there was lopsided representation, and clearly the promoters are achieving their aim, however I expect the national assembly to throw away the entire reports of the confab when it comes before them as there was no legal backing for the jamboree.